Mexican Snowball

🌿 Plant Name

Echeveria elegans
Common name: Mexican Snowball

🪴 Description

Echeveria elegans is a compact, rosette-forming succulent with thick, fleshy leaves covered in a powdery white coating (farina).
The leaves are pale bluish-green to silvery grey, spoon-shaped, and slightly rounded at the tips. This farina protects the plant from strong sun and moisture loss, giving it a soft, frosted look. It forms neat clumps over time by producing offsets.

🌞 Care Guide

☀️ Light

• Bright light to full sun

• Best with 4–6 hours of sunlight

• Too little light causes stretching and loss of color

💧 Watering

• Follow the soak and dry method

• Water only when soil is completely dry

• Summer: every 7–10 days

• Winter: every 15–25 days
  ⚠️ Avoid water on leaves to protect the farina and prevent rot

🌱 Soil

• Very well-draining succulent/cactus mix

• Add pumice, perlite, or coarse sand for best results

🌼 Fertilizer

• Light feeding in spring and summer only

• Use diluted succulent fertilizer once a month

• No fertilizer in winter

🪴 Pot

• Must have drainage holes

• Terracotta pots are ideal

🌸 Flowering

• Blooms in spring

• Produces pink flower stalks with yellow-pink bell-shaped flowers

🌿 Propagation

• Very easy by leaf propagation

• Also spreads by offsets (pups)